Presentation to the HIPAA Summit

In this presentation to the HIPAA Summit, Carol Diamond provides an overview of the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for ...

Connecting Americans to Their Health Care

Executive Summary for the final report of the Working Group on Policies for Electronic Information Sharing Between Doctors and Patients.

Executive Summary: Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Health Care

Executive Summary for Markle Connecting for Health's Preliminary Roadmap for Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare (Roadmap). The ...

Consumers as Network Participants

This document is part of the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information. The framework ...

Electronic Health Data Exchanges: Patient and Consumer Principles for System Design

Improving health and health care depends upon accurate, timely, understandable, and relevant information in the hands of consumers, patients and ...

Designing the National Health Information Network: Patient and Consumer-focused Principles

Modern health care depends upon accurate, timely, understandable, and relevant information.  Complete and useful information needs to be in ...

David Lansky's Cover Letter to HHS

Dear Dr. Brailer: It has been our privilege to convene the patient and consumer organizations listed below to develop a statement of Patient ...

Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information: Statement of Support

Consumers need to be full participants in modern health information tools and services to help them prevent illness, communicate better with ...

Letter from the Personal Health Technology Council to the AHIC

To Secretary Leavitt and the Members of the AHIC: We, the members of the Personal Health Technology Council, commend your leadership in ...

Comments on the Office of the National Coordinator's Preliminary Definition of 'Meaningful Use'

Markle, the Center for American Progress, Brookings, and others respond to first draft of the 'meaningful use' definition issued by the HIT Policy Subcommittee of the US Department of Health and Human Services.